December 9, 20169 yr UK2000 Christmas Sale has just started http://www.uk2000scenery.com/newsite/ 9800X3D + RTX 4080 + 64GB DDR5
December 9, 20169 yr Sorry, but could not see any sale going on. I did hear that their Christmas sale may start sometime this weekend. Carl PC AMD Ryzen R7-5700G (8-Core) processor), AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics 8GB/ 2TB HD + 500GB SSD, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Win11 _____________________________________________________________________________________
December 9, 20169 yr I can see it looking at this site: http://www.uk2000scenery.com/newsite/default.htm Hmm, Luton and Stansted maybe? Would I be creating a sort of British New York area VAS-vice when having all three London sceneries installed and active? (City excluded, am still using the older AS version) Cheers Frank Frank Hoehn I7-6700K, Asus Z170-A, 32GB DDR4, GeForce GTX 1070, Samsung 850 Evo 500GB, Samsung 850 Evo 1TB (P3D), WD Blue 4TB, Win10 Pro 1803, P3Dv4.4
December 9, 20169 yr Yep finally found it. http://www.uk2000scenery.com/newsite/My_Homepage_Files/Page8.html Carl PC AMD Ryzen R7-5700G (8-Core) processor), AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics 8GB/ 2TB HD + 500GB SSD, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Win11 _____________________________________________________________________________________
December 10, 20169 yr Thought this would be an excellent time to take advantage of Gary's sale especially since the conversion from pound to USD has been around 1 to 1.26. However when purchasing the ratio is considerably higher (1 to 1.41). Would be curious why the big difference. Carl PC AMD Ryzen R7-5700G (8-Core) processor), AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics 8GB/ 2TB HD + 500GB SSD, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Win11 _____________________________________________________________________________________
December 10, 20169 yr Thought this would be an excellent time to take advantage of Gary's sale especially since the conversion from pound to USD has been around 1 to 1.26. However when purchasing the ratio is considerably higher (1 to 1.41). Would be curious why the big difference. If you are using Paypal, then the answer is easy, they charge a fee on top of the conversion rate which is built in to their own conversion rate. Credit card companies generally charge the going conversion rate, but then they will also charge a percentage of the purchase price on top of this. As far as I'm aware, both are for international purchases only. If I buy something in Australia via Paypal then I only pay the exact purchase price. Cheers,
December 10, 20169 yr I have 7 of their airports and was thinking of adding Leeds, Heathrow, Stansted, and Belfast. How is the performance at Heathrow? I have the old Aerosoft one and never use it since it is like a slide show. Also, I have the old Gatwick and considering they are supposed to be developing a new Gatwick this year, would it make sense to upgrade to the current Gatwick version? Any other recommendations would be great. I have mostly older versions (Gatwick, Cardiff, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Glasgow). Cheers, Pete Pete Solov - Lake in the Hills 3CK and Schaumburg Regional 06CProud AOPA Member - PPL 2001Real World Piper Cherokee Pilot
December 10, 20169 yr Moderator I have 7 of their airports and was thinking of adding Leeds, Heathrow, Stansted, and Belfast. How is the performance at Heathrow? I have the old Aerosoft one and never use it since it is like a slide show. Also, I have the old Gatwick and considering they are supposed to be developing a new Gatwick this year, would it make sense to upgrade to the current Gatwick version? Any other recommendations would be great. I have mostly older versions (Gatwick, Cardiff, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Glasgow). Cheers, Pete I have Gatwick v1 (never upgraded to v2 and now he's working on v3), Heathrow (latest), Leeds, Cardiff and Prestwick. Heathrow performs well on my rig. I downsized some of the larger textures to 1024, mip mapped all the textures that weren't mipped, and run it with ORBX Global and Open LC EU, UTX EU and UT2 70% with WOAI cargo traffic 100%. Flying the NGX or 777 there I usually maintain 25 to 30 FPS and usually have around 1.3 GB of remaining VAS left over after a flight from the US, so no problem with FPS or VAS at this airport. This is on FSX SP2 boxed btw. I'm thinking of getting Stansted, Luton, Glasgow and Manchester but am hesitant to buy Manchester now since he's saying the updated Manchester will be done in Jan and I don't want to have to pay to upgrade it. I might just buy three and wait until next year to get Manchester and also the Gatwick update to v3. Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
December 10, 20169 yr A new version of Manchester is currently in development, and should be released early in the new year. The new version of Gatwick has now been pushed back to early Spring 2017 (after Norwich Xtreme has been released). I have never had a problem with performance at the latest version of Heathrow, and I have up to 140 detailed AI planes active at the airport early in the morning (freeware AIG airline schedules and models). However, performance will vary depending on the power of your own PC. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
December 10, 20169 yr If you are using Paypal, then the answer is easy, they charge a fee on top of the conversion rate which is built in to their own conversion rate. Credit card companies generally charge the going conversion rate, but then they will also charge a percentage of the purchase price on top of this. As far as I'm aware, both are for international purchases only. If I buy something in Australia via Paypal then I only pay the exact purchase price. Cheers, Thanks for your information; however, I was aware of their additional chagres. The cost calculated was the conversion rate of 1.41 prior using paypal or cc. When you add the paypal or CC would only increase overall cost or exchange rate.Even with that said it is still a fair deal. Carl PC AMD Ryzen R7-5700G (8-Core) processor), AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics 8GB/ 2TB HD + 500GB SSD, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Win11 _____________________________________________________________________________________
December 11, 20169 yr I wonder if I go ahead and purchase the latest Gatwick if they will offer a decent discount on the new version once it is released. I never updated from the original version since only a 5 pound discount didn't seem to be enough to make me pull the trigger. Cheers, Pete Pete Solov - Lake in the Hills 3CK and Schaumburg Regional 06CProud AOPA Member - PPL 2001Real World Piper Cherokee Pilot
December 12, 20169 yr Every time I try to buy anything it keeps asking me to confirm that I'm a UK resident. Why is this? No other scenery store has stupid rules like this. Best regards, Neal McCullough
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.